AstroBin Sh2-274 The Medusa (or Santa Claus?) nebula in wide field

[gorann]

I have not seen many wide field images of Sh2-274 and the surrounding nebulosity, so I thought is could be an interesting target for my dual-RASA rig. No moon up most of the night, so no moon light and gradients to worry about. Still, I decided to go for a NBZ-filtered image (Ha and Oiii) rather than RGB to get more punch in the Ha and Oiii. Sh2-274 is known as the Medusa Nebula, but to me, especially with all the Ha shining in this image, it reminds me of Santa Claus. It was imaged exactly one month after Christmas so fortunately for us he has 11 month to return😉

So, imaged on the night 24-25 Jan 2022 with two RASA 8 and ASI2600MC with IDAS NBZ filter. 145 x 5 min (=12.1 hours) at gain 100, offset 30, -15°C. The annotated image is a screen grab from my Astrobin. I also added a close up since the image shows quite a lot of detail for being 400 mm focal length.

Cheers & CS, Göran

Edited January 27, 2022 by gorann

[Rodd]

Very nice processing.  I am not sure its Santa I see....a zombie in a red cloak?  You definitely have the RASA's rassaing well.

[gorann]

Thanks a lot Rodd! Maybe Santa is in zombie disguise while in space?

[m.tweedy]

Thats a lovely image. I am tying to get more data on this one. 

[gorann]

10 minutes ago, m.tweedy said:

Thats a lovely image. I am tying to get more data on this one. 

Thanks Michael! The best of luck with your sky! Not much luck here right now...

[FranckiM06]

Great result and wonderful image.